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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85790</law_id><section_number>33.2-1720</section_number><catch_line>Sinking fund</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>33.2-1520</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Transportation Funding and Development</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="17">Transportation Development and Revenue Bond Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The tolls and all other <span class="dictionary">revenues</span> derived from the <span class="dictionary">project</span> for which a single <span class="dictionary">issue</span> of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> is issued, except such part thereof as may be required to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating such <span class="dictionary">project</span> and to provide such reserves therefor as may be provided for in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or in the trust indenture, shall be set aside at such regular intervals as may be provided in such resolution or such trust indenture, in a sinking fund that is hereby pledged to and charged with the payment of (i) the interest upon such <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> as such interest shall fall due, (ii) the principal of the <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> as the same shall fall due, (iii) the necessary charges of paying agents for paying principal and interest, and (iv) any premium upon <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> retired by call or purchase as provided in this section.
		The use and <span class="dictionary">disposition</span> of such sinking fund shall be subject to such regulations as may be provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or in the trust indenture but, except as may otherwise be provided in such resolution or trust indenture, such sinking fund shall be a fund for all such <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> without distinction or priority of one over another. Subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of the <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or of the trust indenture, any moneys in such sinking fund in excess of an amount equal to one year&#x2019;s interest on all <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> then outstanding may be applied to the purchase or <span class="dictionary">redemption</span> of <span class="dictionary">bonds</span>. All <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> so purchased or redeemed shall forthwith be cancelled and shall not again be issued.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 33-246; 1970, c. 322, &#xA7; 33.1-286; 2014, c. 805.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
